What was your FIRST EVER cat?

[arwalden]

Or dog... or pet.

The first dog I remember having was when I was 5... her name was Annie... a beagle looking mutt. Sweet as she could be. She got sick and I was told that she was "sad"... she needed to be on a farm where she could run and play in a large farmyard. (My parents were trying to protect me... and I believed them.)

[Skittles]

1. I had a gerbil named Mama Pinkus when I was a kid

yes INDEED

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. My first pets were a couple of little turtles

named Myrtle and Fertile. This was in about 1952. There was also a snake, Mr. Stripe. Cats came much later:

Kitty
Tilly
Tulip
Charles
Leonard
Spot
Alice
Teddy
Woody
Milo

[Bouncy Ball]

3. When I was born my parents had a standard poodle named Cocoa.

Then there was the regular poodle named BeeBee.

The only cat I owned growing up was named Potsie.

Then there were the dogs:

Rocky
Sugar
Pepper
Puppy
Holly

The hamsters:

Buster and JoJo
Cindy and Mindy

and the bird:

Sparky

That's it!

As an adult:

dogs--Tootsie, Annie, Mickey, Buddy, Hannah

cats--Thunder, Clarissa

[Bouncy Ball]

4. By the way is that your dog in the sig pic?

That's just too cute.

[arwalden]

11. Yep... that's Mitzi. Thanks for asking...

... and thanks for the compliment. She's our Shih-Tzu... four years old. Just as smart and sweet and loving as she can be.

[MrSlayer]

5. I got my first cat 5 years ago.

He's a tuxedo cat a mean bastard. I love him to death.

[DELUSIONAL]

6. a cat -- Butterball -- I was 4 or 5 yrs old.

[Lorien]

16. My first cat was named Butterball too!

actually, she was my sister's cat. She really didn't have much of a personality. I was strictly a dog person myself until college, when a tiny orphaned kitten named Peewee came into my life. He was the best pet I ever had.

My first pet, though, was a guinea pig named Alice.

[khashka]

7. Here goes

First family dog: Missy, a Doberman
First Family cat: Tao, a Siamese.

Missy thought that Tao and I were her puppies and tried to raise us to be good Dobermans. On the whole, she succeeded. (Hi, Mom!)

First gerbil: Isaac Asimov.

As an adult....

My first cat : Stevie Lee Jones, a Balinese
My first snake: Cleo, false water cobra
First toad: Charmin' (believe it or not, he would come to me when I called his name)
First Bird: Finchley Road, a finch I found injured in a thunderstorm.


Khash.

[Patchuli]

8. I had childhood pets

that my parents got and subsequently gave away, sigh.

But the first ever chosen by ME for ME cat was Dinah...a gorgeous
fluffy tortoiseshell lovely girl...I adored her. I lost her at a
young age, sadly to a kidney problem but I had her daughter, Sexy
Sadie who lived to a ripe old 17. She had a gold star on her forehead
and yes, she was my bestest ever friend.

[CottonBear]

9. Tiger Kitty

He was my first cat. My friend Dana's cat, Amos, had a litter and one of the females had Tiger Kitty. I knew nothing about cats. He lived with me in the country. Tiger was an intact male (I did not know that I should have him fixed...)
He lived with me and my white German Shepherd Maggie and my Black Lab-Retriever Samantha. He would go on walks in the country, through woods and fields. We could go for a 2 mile walk and Tiger would come along. He would occasionally climb a tree. I would stop and wait for him to come back down and continue our walk. He was the best cat ever. I miss him.. I'm crying now.

[Liberal In Texas]

10. ELVIS...Big old white SOB...bestest and will be the only cat in my life.

...cause i'm allergic.

[solinvictus]

12. Dog and cat...

The dog's name was Whitey because, well you can figure it out. The cat was a Siamese named Hot Dog after Dennis the Menace's cat. I was either four or five years old.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. Buttons, a very large orange tabby

My grandfather brought him to my mom when I was pretty small, we had him until I was about 5 or so. He was a big boy.

I remember my mom telling me how sweet it was that Grandaddy brought him to her because he really didn't like cats, but he knew she did.

The next pet I remember was a chihuahua we got when I was about 8 and we had him until I was almost out of college.

[funkybutt]

14. Kitty Yellow

she was orange...my sister named her when she was 2

[Festivito]

15. Queen Cleopatra, a misguided teenager and booifoh wyoudcat.

Liz Taylor played the queen and my mother said they both had about the same morals. Black with no white above her mouth, white and no black under her mouth forming a perfect white arrow on her jet black white-mitted frame. Green eyes. A beautiful wildcat. Well, that's what we thought.

We contrived a ruse to get a bowl of milk. Certainly transparent to my mother naive of the lengthy ramification.

She hid her brood in the basement. Mom shut the door. When opened, Queen made a beeline to her kittens. She would carry them by their necks, entertain them with her tail, and trained them with a mouse she brought into the kitchen. Mom was livid.

She lived many happy years. Loved the out-of-doors. Would only jump on my mother's lap. The rest of us had to pick her up to pet her.

I was much older by the time she became sick. Not a dry eye in the house when the vet put her down. And, still not forgotten.

[benny05]

17. Venus

She was an orange tabby. I think I was 7.

[El Fuego]

18. Bill the Cat

We never had cats when I was growing up because my mother thought she didn't like them. Then I brought Bill the Cat home from college, and my mother absolutely fell in love with him. After that, my parents were confirmed CAT LOVERS.